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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?
(a) The Nothing.
(b) The Substitute.
(c) The Something.
(d) The Other.

2. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?
(a) Logical.
(b) Horrific.
(c) Phenomenological.
(d) Absurd.

3. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?
(a) Hans.
(b) Francis.
(c) Juan.
(d) André.

4. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?
(a) Narcissism.
(b) Sin.
(c) Self-loathing.
(d) Evil.

5. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?
(a) Freud.
(b) Rappaport.
(c) Hartmann.
(d) Kris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?

2. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?

3. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?

4. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?

5. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?

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